About

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Mission

The goal of this project is to make it easier to enter the field of molecular programming. It aims to equip readers with resources to:

Stay current with the latest developments
Conduct research and use existing tools
Design and fabricate devices
Collaborate with the molecular programming community

Vision

This is intended to be a community-driven project that promotes open science and collaboration in a way that academia and private interests cannot. The project envisions a gradual shift away from the traditional peer-review process, toward a pipeline resembling what is used for modern software and hardware development. This approach has a few advantages:

No pay walls
Updates and feedback can be submitted by anyone
Contributions can be reviewed and released more quickly than with journals or textbooks
Encourages sharing of knowledge, and reduces information silos
The content review process can place less emphasis on the credentials of the contributor and reviewers, and rely more heavily on real-world testing and demonstrations

Acheving this vision requires the community to strive for the following:

Focus most heavily on technological pathways that will require the least financial resources to use, so widespread adoption is easier
Make this field as accessible as possible to individuals and groups that may have limited resources, while also remaining commercially friendly
Place emphasis on being able to carry out real-world testing of content, ideally in the form of many external tutorial projects referenced from this knowledge base
Standardize and rapidly release new tools for real-world testing; this can be accomplished through any number of side projects

Site Contents

What is molecular programming?

A high-level overview of the field, and some specific examples of how it can be applied now or with future advancements.

News

The latest advancements in the field.

Research Topics

The bulk of the content of this knowledge base. It focuses on scientific, engineering, and mathetical research.

This will also:

Reference historical and active projects related to each topic, including tools and applications
Point out open questions in the field, that may guide future research directions